Thanks to a lot of really great speakers and presenters who covered content, business and technical topics around online video, we had a great Streaming Media East conference last month. Almost all of the videos from the event are now available online, for free at www.streamingmedia.com/videos and most of the slides from the presentations can be downloaded from the Streaming Media East agenda page. We have about half a dozen videos to still post and some slide decks are still missing that I will upload as soon as the presenters send them to me.

The 2014 Streaming Media East conference will take place May 12-14, at the same venue, so mark your calendars now. If you have any follow-up questions from the event, please don’t hesitate to contact me at anytime.

Andy Plesser from Beet.TV was on hand at the Streaming Media East show two weeks ago and did his usual great job of interviewing a bunch of speakers, videos of which are now online. Click on the image below to check out all of Andy’s coverage.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the recent Content Delivery Summit such a success! We had a great sharing of information amongst service providers, cable operators, content owners and syndicators and industry vendors. Lots of really detailed data and analytics was shared, which was the whole purpose of the event, to help educate the market on many different kinds of web, acceleration and media delivery technologies. All of the content from the event is now available online, for free at www.contentdeliverysummit.com/2013. All of the slides from the presenters can be downloaded from the Content Delivery Summit website as well.

I will be bringing the show back again next year, on Monday May 12th, 2014, at the same venue, so mark your calendars now. If you have any follow-up questions from the event, please don’t hesitate to contact me at anytime.

Even though the Content Delivery Summit and Streaming Media East conference just ended, it’s already time for me to start working on the agenda for our next show. The Streaming Media West show will take place November 18-20 and this year, we’re moving it to a new location – the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach CA.

The call for speakers is now open and the submission deadline is July 15th. Those who want to moderate or do a how-to presentation should contact me now with their ideas. If you are new to the submission process, please, read the instructions on the submission page as it is very detailed. And if you still have any questions, just pick up the phone and give me a call at 917-523-4562. I am always available to answer any questions about the submission process, discuss your ideas or help you with your pitch.

Unlike many shows that publish an agenda and then ask you to pick from it, I use your ideas and your submissions to build the program so right now, it’s a clean slate and I’m open to all ideas and suggestions on topics and focus. In addition to the usual business, content and technology topics we cover, we’ll also have a dedicated track on OTT video and we’ll be adding a satellite event this year, focusing on video production topics like shooting, lightning, audio, webcasting and the gear that makes it all possible. So come up with your best ideas and get your submissions in on time!

Thursday May 30th, at 2pm ET, I’ll be moderating another StreamingMedia.com webinar on the topic of, “HEVC.”The most recent video compression standard, HEVC / H.265, is expected to become the video standard of choice over the next decade. As with each generation of video compression technology before it, H.265 promises to reduce the overall cost of delivering and storing video assets while maintaining or increasing the quality of experience delivered to the viewer. This webinar will address what H.265 is, how it differs from previous generations of compression technology including H.264, key barriers to widespread adoption, and thoughts on when H.265 is likely to be implemented.

Join Harmonic, Telestream, Ericsson, and Elemental on this live web event and learn:

• Why HEVC is important
• What makes HEVC better
• What issues remain to be resolved to enable HEVC deployment
• What markets will benefit from HEVC
• Which markets will adopt HEVC first
• What will be the likely replacement role out of HEVC for existing AVC / H.264 deployments

We’ll have a full Q&A session in which your questions will be answered and as always, all StreamingMedia.com webinars are free. So register here and save the date for this instructional webinar.